Now lets start with leadership. First of all, Political Leadership is critical to moving the ball forward in this city. And we want to really thank the mayor and we want to thank the board of supervisors for working together politically to sustain these programs because its taken about five years for us to get to this point. And that could not be done in isolation. So thank you , madam mayor. Thank you, jonah ortega, coeur dalene gang. But we also want to thank our city departments and the leaders from our city departments for the collaboration that theyve done in getting this program to where it is. We want to give a big, big thank you to the Housing Authority led by tanya liturgy and chaired the commission chaired by Joaquin Torres. Thanks for coming out today. We want to give a big thank you to the Mayors Office of housing, eric shaw. And of course, we want to thank the department of building inspection. Who in many ways built the foundation for this program over the long term. All
For members of the public, theyd like to make Public Comment regarding line item one, please approach the podium. Good afternoon. My name is dr. Miller. Im a long time resident of San Francisco and im here on behalf of the disabled community and many patients that ive had in regards to the ongoing ada violations on the city sidewalks. Im sorry, general Public Comment will be called next. This is just on line. Item one, the officer recognition. Oh, im so sorry. Im jumping the gun. Well, i want to also thank the recognition for the officer who did an excellent job. And i spent many years at San Francisco general helping helping you guys and gals out when you guys have been in crisis. So again, thank you to him. And ill come back and share my concerns in a minute. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank any other member would like to make Public Comment regarding line item one, please approach the podium and there is no Public Comment. Line item two general Public Comment at this time, the public
They finally got haengjeong. All they got. Seng gung ho, seng gung seng, the whole dog. Hi, fellow. Go july, get jesse fuller to the tilings. Like you. Now lets start with leadership. First of all, Political Leadership is critical to moving the ball forward in this city. And we want to really thank the mayor and we want to thank the board of supervisors for working together politically to sustain these programs because its taken about five years for us to get to this point. And that could not be done in isolation. So thank you , madam mayor. Thank you, jonah ortega, coeur dalene gang. But we also want to thank our city departments and the leaders from our city departments for the collaboration that theyve done in getting this program to where it is. We want to give a big, big thank you to the Housing Authority led by tanya liturgy and chaired the commission chaired by Joaquin Torres. Thanks for coming out today. We want to give a big thank you to the Mayors Office of housing, eric shaw
joining us. i m ken wayne and i m vicki liviakis in for pam moore tonight, oakland mayor libby shaft deliver her state of the city address tonight at the oakland museum of california. her main focus combating homelessness and keeping residents in the city. our first dan thorn live for us in open tonight, he joins us now with more dan. well vicki the state of the city s theme this year was belonging in oakland, the mayor weaving that idea into homelessness and housing. crime and safer streets and also retaining the culture in oakland, the mayor touting improvements such as the amount of people being moved from homelessness to housing as well as doubling the shelter capacity in the city to more than 1700 dead, so former homeless man we moved in oakland s cabin community and is now living in his own place in working in social media was used as one example of the city success in fighting homelessness. i believe in homelessness is caused by 4 things. first a failure in our menta
The expense of the very people they serve. This is not deflategate. All right . This is a normal issue of which there are allegations after a very long run eight year investigation. Federal investigators say the 11 term congressman and four others allegedly engaged in a series of five schemes misappropriateing hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal charitable and Campaign Funds. Then they tried to hide it. Fattah and his associates engaged in a coverup lasting years in an effort to avoid detect. The investigation started with a tip to the fbi in march of 2013 and led down a path straight to fattah and others. 20 year veteran of Congress Also used funds illegally to pay off his 2007 Mayoral Campaign debt. He paid personal expenses for he and his wife, paid for a Vacation Home and helped reduce his sons Student Loans by 23,000. Corruption like what is charged today really shakes public confidence. Fbi says the 58yearold fattah also took 18,000 bribe payment from former depth pew tha